09-Jul-2005 -- After a few days in the snow, my girlfriend and I spent the night at Villa Traful. The next day we left towards Neuquen but once on the road, at place where two rivers cross and there is an office of the Argentinean Automobile Club, I realized we where close to 40S 69W Confluence. We reached Piedra de Aguila and took a detour towards the ‘dessert’.

We crossed over a dam and entered the province of Rio Negro. First we used a road made for the construction of power lines, then we used a slightly better road and kept approaching the point. At some point the GPS indicated we had 11 kms to go as we road on the dried bed of a small river. We covered 2 kms but could not go any further, all we saw where thorny bushes and animal footprints, probably wild boar. We came back and as we where about to lose hope we found another road on the left side. We used this option, at 6.8 kms from the point we found a gate on the left and then a trail directly to S40 W69. We followed it until we where at 1,200 meters, at which point we started to walk.

It was getting dark, we took the GPS, the camera, a flashlight, our Argentina t-shirt and started to walk, We got there, took the pictures and returned quickly. It was relatively easy